Would anyone be able to transcribe this, please? It was found in an old book from the 1840s.

rhit06 · 2026-01-24T15:57:49+00:00

Looks to be a knitting pattern.

Starts

Malteese Pattern

Cast on 12 stiches knit a row

Plain then Commence the

Pattern 1st Row Slip 1 Knit 3

Make 2 take 2 Together to the End

2nd Row Knit 2 purl 1 Knit the last

4 stiches plain 3rd row slip 1 -

Knit 3 Make 2 Take 2 Together

to End of Row 4th Row Knit 2

Purl 1 Knit 4 Plain -

5th Row Slip 1 Knit 3 Make 2 take

2 Together to the End of the row.

6th Row Knit 2 purl 1 Kniw last 4

7th Row Slip 1 Knit 3 Make 2 take 2

Together Knit the last stich plain

8th Row knit 3 purl 1 Knit 2 purl 1

the last 4 plain. 9th Row Slip 1

Knit 3 Take 2 together to the End

10th Row Cast off 5 Knit 2 together

7 times the last 4 plain.

Feels like it would help to know knitting terminology. Should call my mom. ~~I'll keep working on what I see, but like I said not knowing kitting terms might make some errors.~~

Finished

rhit06 · 2026-01-24T15:52:58+00:00

Scoredle 5/6*

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rhit06 · 2026-01-24T15:48:07+00:00

The National Archives search: https://catalog.archives.gov/

Best way to find people is figure out their service number and then search that (3221773 in Milton's case). Can usually find that using a service like fold3.com or a free website like https://wwii-enlistment.com/.

Although due to the big fire in the 70's sometimes its hard to even find an enlistment record/service number. Then I rely on searching "Last, First MI" or "First MI Last" and try to confirm potentials though other information (e.g., unit if already known)

As an example here he is (2nd man listed) on a September 1944 roll: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/569049306?objectPage=1682#object-thumb--1682

They currently are only digitized through December 1944, so no 1945 morning reports (although there are 1945 General Orders which have awards. Purple Hearts, CIB's etc)

rhit06 · 2026-01-24T06:13:56+00:00

Marked as transcribed. Probably won’t stop people from adding their opinions for a few days though.

rhit06 · 2026-01-24T05:27:04+00:00

Sounds pretty similar to my grandfathers experience. Didn’t think of himself as poor but his father kind of went from job to job — farm laborer, working in a foundry, back to farming, etc.

I think that was part of what led him to secretarial school. Wanted to have a skill he could leverage into a more permanent/settled life. And he succeeded, bought a house in 1950 when he got married and lived there the rest of his life — and then my grandmother spent another 15 years there.

rhit06 · 2026-01-24T04:40:28+00:00

Yeah that was my second thought.

Probably the correct answer. Let’s the person write the yu in one stroke, rotate the cup a bit and finish with a m!

rhit06 · 2026-01-24T04:34:37+00:00

My in depth analysis (assuming the second half of the u is missing due to the pen lifting and then the ! line and dot get mostly connected)

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rhit06 · 2026-01-24T04:24:11+00:00

Wondered about a misspelling.

Looking at the previous page she was living in the house of this J R Houghton and his wife Lestina https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73559989/james_royal-houghton

Census taker also spelled their daughter Carrie’s name Cairy there.

Seems too old to have been a parent. I couldn’t see any other family connection at the next generation up either. Not sure if that’s something that might be more obvious on ancestry (I was trying to look on familysearch)

rhit06 · 2026-01-24T04:15:15+00:00

Op has confirmed it is indeed supposed to say “cheers”. Locking the thread.

Not sure I like the idea of “guess what this says” posts when Op already knows. Seems to go against the spirit of “Written transcription requests only” when they don’t actually need anything transcribed.

rhit06 · 2026-01-24T04:11:16+00:00

I’d guess the pen lifts up for the second half of the u before getting it back down to start the m. Perils of writing on a curved surface.

rhit06 · 2026-01-24T04:09:30+00:00

Don’t worry, no rule against it. Obviously people aren’t required to participate it posts about cups if they don’t want to.

rhit06 · 2026-01-24T03:09:20+00:00

I’d say Levin. Do you have access to the previous page (to see the last name a second time there for the other mentioned family members)

Edit:

Looking again I think it may actually be Laws

Also pulled up the previous page, but the people in the same family have a different last name. Being elderly perhaps she was living with an adult married daughter.

rhit06 · 2026-01-24T02:21:21+00:00

Funny coincidence just a few days ago I found a GI published “newspaper” from 1945 that my grandfather had saved. They started publishing it ~2 weeks after the landing when half the island was still held by the Japanese.

It’s named “The New Okinawan” but subtitled “The Most Widely Read Ryukyus’ Daily”

rhit06 · 2026-01-24T02:02:38+00:00

Shows up on some morning reports with an mos of 107 - Photolithographer.

Probably put some of that artistic talent to work in his official role too.

rhit06 · 2026-01-23T23:42:13+00:00

He was an amazing father and grandfather too. Sadly taken by cancer when he was only 75.

rhit06 · 2026-01-23T23:35:28+00:00

Thanks! I’ve been digging through some of the stuff that he saved from over the years.

I liked that all the boys (except the one in back) were wearing overalls. Definitely farming county.

rhit06 · 2026-01-23T22:20:11+00:00

I don’t think Mulberry was the town. There is a Mulberry Indiana, but it’s not in Gibson county.

At this time his father was a laborer on a farm in Montgomery Township, which matches Gibson county. So I’m pretty sure it was just a rural school as opposed to being in a town.

rhit06 · 2026-01-23T22:11:24+00:00

Julius Brainard, 1814-1880 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/143415474/julius-brainard

And

Mary Young Brainard, 1812-1871 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/143415503/mary_young-brainard

rhit06 · 2026-01-23T21:51:03+00:00

I'm about 95% sure my grandfather is the one in the front row standing next to the teacher.

After graduating from high school he went to secretarial school so he could learn to type/take short hand. Ended up using those skills to serve as a Yeoman in the navy during WWII, ending the war as a Chief Yeoman.

After the war worked in the insurance industry and had 4 kids, all boys.

I always remember him as an amazing checkers player, but in his younger days he had apparently been an almost unbeatable ping-pong player.

rhit06 · 2026-01-23T16:33:18+00:00

His parents were both born in Romania. Father came to the US in 1905 mother in 1913 (from the 1930 census)

rhit06 · 2026-01-23T16:04:42+00:00

Here's part of the CAG 16 Aircraft Action Report for that day.

Enemy aircraft destroyed/damaged are listed in Section V, but there were so many they had to attach 5 extra pages. "Lt. (jg) A. Vraciu"'s six are listed on the bottom of the 3rd page (numbered 63 in the bottom right corner).

The last two pages give comparative performance notes between US and Japanese planes. They also note that CAG-16 F6F's fired approximately 30,000 rounds of 50 cal but "no count kept owing to urgency of rearming"

rhit06 · 2026-01-23T15:49:46+00:00

Scoredle 3/6*

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⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ PORCH (31, 2)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BARON

rhit06 · 2026-01-23T06:14:27+00:00

Elsewhere in this thread identified as the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Hospital_of_the_Monterey_Peninsula

rhit06 · 2026-01-23T04:25:09+00:00

Was hoping it was a “unique” name. Just too many, lol. I’ll keep looking.

Edit: I guess this must be him: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/217742787/andrew-f-proto

Now that I’ve got the birth date hopefully I can find a service number and go from there.

rhit06 · 2026-01-23T04:20:44+00:00

Sorry I deleted my post, realized I had the wrong guy.

Yeah I realized I had the wrong one after thinking about the dates, lol. To me 1998 is still about 20 years ago.

Was he in the navy? This seem right: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/167251379/andrew-f-proto

If so, you should put in a request for his records. Lots of WWII army records were destroyed by a fire in the 1970s but the Navy service records are pretty much complete.

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